Wednesday, October 26, 2016

"The
greatest objective of mankind in this century should be to eradicate
imperialism and capitalism as models for society." Evo Morales

As we approach the end of our most recent contamination of
the ideal of national democracy with possibly its worst example we would do
well to consider the words of a democratically elected leader of a nation that
could teach us about the word’s meaning.

A representative of the real majority of his people, a
former farm worker who rose to the presidency on the shoulders of ordinary
Bolivians and not the bank books of his nation’s rich, Evo Morales and his
supporters understand more about the state of the world than many of us
understand about the state of our nation. Whichever of the ruling parties unpopular
wretches is elected on November 8, they will contradict Morales’s words,
possibly with more savagery than ever before, and the need for a political
economic transformation of America and the world will become greater than ever
before.

Our ruling oligarchs have reacted with a vengeance in suppressing
two dangerously democratic threats to their dominance. First, Bernie Sanders leading
a popular movement motivated by social desire, and second a more ego centered
individualist struggle led by an economic millionaire and intellectual pauper,
usually a winning combination in the empire of capital but not this time. In
fact, the populace has received daily bulletins about Donald Trump’s outrageous
practice of capitalism and its profitable by-products of division by dollar,
race and sex. Who knew?

If we are to believe polls which measure how much we absorb
the message of our consciousness controllers, the assault on our collective mentality
has never been as blatant, corrupt, single minded and seemingly successful; we
will soon coronate a historic first for the empire as the glass ceiling above
the CEO presiding over the slaughters perpetrated by our warfare state will be
broken and a woman will lead the foreign policy that creates many people of
color: blood red.

The further destruction of the Muslim world and the creation
of more terrorists who murder us because we murder them will continue. Heart
breaking photos of a Palestinian, Yemeni, Iraqi or Syrian parent carrying what
used to be a son or daughter, reduced to a bloody pulp form of unidentifiable
gender fluidity by an Israeli, French, British or German aimed, American
created bomb, will not go viral. Only those dramatic and sometimes staged
photos of alleged victims of America’s adversaries are assured such coverage, while
we beseech one and all to take in refugees created by our destruction of their
nations.

Frighteningly worse for all of us than terrorist attacks
would be a nuclear war that could happen if Russia reacts with as much arrogance
and stupidity as the USA and responds to menacing provocation on its borders to
enter such a confrontation that could spell the end of everything.

Hopefully, there will be enough americans who identify with
humanity’s wholeness and refuse forced acceptance of membership in a fictitious
minority with warped identity sense that makes it somehow less or more politically
correct by having different genitals, skin tones or belief systems and
remaining oblivious to being members of the one and only race: human.

Historic problems dating back to the nation’s origins in
being brutally stolen from the original inhabitants, built on slave and
indentured servant labor abused in order to create wealth enough to trickle
down on what many of the descendants found a middle class status in a dream
society that offered material hope to many but depended on continued
exploitation of many more to maintain a lie. We are a nation built at the
expense of the semi-voluntary poor thrown out of europe, Asia and Africa to become
supporters of a national dream nearing a nightmare for too many and needing a
wakeup call from the world, in the words of Morales.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, our
supposed ideal, obviously has nothing to do with the present owned and operated
by great wealth entity that can be defined as democracy the way that rape can
be defined as love. But as long as great wealth maintains dominance and keeps
democratic power from the rest of us in part by controlling what we think we
know, genuine concern about government can be played as a skirmish between the supporters
of a market without any control and supporters of a market with minimal
control, both assuring that wealth will be defended, only differing in how much
of it will accrue to the minority rulers, how quickly it will occur and how
acceptable that will be found by the poorly informed.

Neither government nor banking nor finance will work for the
majority of the people until the people create democracy in deed as opposed to
the sham we have. As long as minorities, growing smaller in number as their
private wealth grows larger, are allowed to dominate there is no difference
between modern capitalism and ancient feudalism. We now tolerate billionaires
whose material wealth and power would stagger some phony royal/god/pharaoh of
the ancient past and our innumeracy in failing to understand that - how the
hell does anyone have a billion dollars while more than a billion humans
survive (?) on not much more than a couple of dollars a day? - while we are fed
a steady diet of consumerist garbage by these rulers can only change when we
grow angry enough at what is happening to the planet we live on and most of its
people by having it and us treated as products in a free market where nothing
is free, all to benefit them while we carry the ever more staggering cost. For
openers, we ought not to vote for the lesser evil deadly duo but the greater
good of Jill Stein and the Greens and then join any group opting for change
that is systemic and not simply individual.

The Trump and Sanders expressions of disgust with things as
they are and the great followings that resulted, despite the twisted treatment
by established power, are signs that the end of this system is near even if the
people who want it over aren’t yet sure what it is they want it replaced by.
Democracy does seem to be an agreement they can focus on in building a future
coalition. Morales, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela and many more leaders and
nations are right. Capitalism must end or humanity will.

Saturday, October 15, 2016

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Friday that the
slow recovery from the recession has surprised economists, confounding
long-held beliefs about growth and inflation...

The aftermath of the 2007-09 crisis has “revealed limits in economists’ understanding of the economy,” the Fed chair suggested.

Hereafter, witch doctors who use the size of goat brains, the look of calf livers, the stench of cat excrement , the brightness of moon phases and the heat of sun spots to forecast the working of our world famous market system will be relied on in the hopes of achieving more accuracy of just what market forces under minority control seeking nothing more or less than private profit can come up with for the successful future of, um, witch doctors and, um, economists.

Thursday, October 13, 2016

An anonymous source claims to have seen Donald Trump dressed
as a very scary clown and herding frightened illegal immigrants to the polls
after forcing them to register as his voters. He was laughing hideously all the
while.

Details later.

Trump
Accused of Lurid Sex Comments Watching Bill Cosby

Another anonymous source claims to have seen and heard Trump
comment on wanting to have sex with various members of the Cosby TV family
while watching reruns of the show.He was looking lustily and drooling all the
while.

Details later.

Trump
and Cosby Abuse Victims Unite for Class Action

Still another anonymous source – a legal and religious
expert – prophesizes that the united victims will sue for billions and go to
the Supreme Court if necessary. Trump looked terrified, ugly and unhinged all
the time.

Details much later.

Trump
Asks Putin & Assad How Hot Their Wives Are

Still another anonymous source –not the same as the other
three, this one speaks Russian and Arabic – alleges that Trump asked both
global mass murdering villains about their sex lives. He wanted explicit
details and looked very horny and sexist and racist all the while.

More details much later.

Much much later.

The Garlic prides itself on using international morals-free
paparazzi media sources, all of them college graduates and sworn to secrecy
lest their alma maters suffer vicious definancialization after donors are
incentivized to tell them to fuck off with that garbage, looking embarrassed all
the while.

Saturday, October 8, 2016

The first thing to say about the U.S. presidential
elections is that they are extremely anti-democratic. And
here I’m not even talking about the manipulations that may
have enabled Clinton to beat Sanders or about the fact
that mainstream media spend their time deriding one
candidate and covering up for the other. The most
fundamentally anti-democratic aspect of the American
elections is that a small fragment of humanity gets to
elect someone who has an enormous influence over the rest
of the world, someone who takes decisions that can drag us
all into a generalized war, or at very least can aggravate
tensions with Russia, Iran, and China, not to mention
Syria, which are contrary to European interests.

From that point of view, Trump has an advantage over
Clinton. That is, he says he wants to be President of the
United States and not of the whole world, whereas she
insists that the United States must exert world
leadership.

Trump is berated as the latest incarnation of Evil (after
Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad, the Brexiters): racist, sexist,
Islamophobe, a friend of dictators, etc., in short the
embodiment of all that arouses the righteous indignation
of the human rights defenders.

I would like to suggest a different way of seeing Trump.
He is above all a capitalist, almost a caricature of the
sort of man capitalism produces, encourages and
celebrates. He makes money and is proud of it. For him,
the bottom line is cost-benefit. Everything comes down to
that ratio. Defend the Baltic States? What does it cost,
what do we gain? Defend Japan? What does it cost, what do
we gain?

In his way, he is also patriotic. Of course, not enough
to pay taxes, or to pay his subcontractors if he can get
out of it. But he is no doubt seriously worried about the
de-industrialization of the United States (a rational
worry for a capitalist). He fancies he can solve the
problem, in a capitalist way – making deals with the
Chinese or with companies that take their jobs abroad.

As a capitalist, Trump succeeded. Of course, he didn’t
start from nothing, but he considerably enlarged the
fortune he inherited. He did so by all sort of morally
and legally doubtful methods. So what? Are there many
capitalists who get that rich otherwise?

It is almost laughable to see the horrified reaction of
the respectable left (human rights defenders, feminists,
anti-racists) to the sight of this phenomenon. After all,
the respectable left is itself totally pro-capitalist, but
it uses its own vocabulary to designate the system: free
market, open society, liberalism. But it accepts
capitalism as essentially the end of history. It directs
its criticism solely against “exclusion”, whether due to
supposed prejudice or rejection of immigrants, or against
unfair competition. But perfect competition would be a
capitalist dream come true.

When the respectable left is faced with such a pure
product of the system it defends (in its own way), that
is, someone who is very calculating, vulgar, who says what
comes to mind without concern for what is politically
correct, all of which is fairly typical of a successful
capitalist pleased with himself, we hear cries of dismay.

For that well-mannered left, the pro-capitalist discourse
must be wrapped in sweet words, such as freedom, human
rights, equality of opportunity, whereas the system as it
is produces something quite different. Trump, for example.

The point at which the conflict between Trump and the
pro-Clinton left, including the lesser-evilists, becomes
interesting is the issue of war and peace.

Here too, Trump calculates: almost six trillion
dollars spent on wars in the Middle East. And what do we
have to show for it? Practically nothing! Chinese
companies among others exploit Iraqi oil without having
spent a penny on those wars. The chaos in Libya or Syria
is not profitable to anyone, notably not to oil companies
(which profit from stability), while all reasonable
capitalists are itching to do business with Iran and
Russia.

Incidentally, even the anti-war left tends to get things
wrong by attributing those wars to rational economic
calculation. In reality, those wars are motivated by a
mixture of human rights ideology, determination to destroy
Israel’s enemies and American ambition to exert world
hegemony.

However, that ambition is not rational in economic
terms. It is expensive. If you neglect the costs, it can
seem rational. But Trump, as a genuine capitalist, doesn’t
neglect them, and figures the whole enterprise is not
worth it. And there, he is absolutely right. By the same
token, he doesn’t see any good reason to launch a jihad
against Russia, which is what is being done by the same
ideologues who support the Middle East wars. Russia is a
capitalist country and someone like Trump can perfectly
well make deals with the Russians.

What is fascinating about the Trump phenomenon is that
those who denounce him as vulgar, dishonest, racist, and
so on, have nevertheless to admit that his support comes
from ordinary folks, inasmuch as all the media are against
him, along with Wall Street, the Pentagon, and the left
from Sanders to Chomsky. But the more violent that
denunciation is, the more obvious becomes the total
failure of the “third way”, or the “second left” (the
Clintons, Blair, Zapatero, Schroeder, Jospin, Hollande,
Renzi) which has totally lost popular support, and can now
only rely on the support of the elites.

That “second left” has lost out because it is unable to
solve economic problems due to its blind obedience to
economic liberalism and because its international policy
of endless interventions has only resulted in gigantic
chaos, both in the Middle East and increasingly in Europe,
by causing the refugee crisis. Intensifying tension with
Russia or insisting on overthrowing the Syrian government,
no matter what the price, can only make matters worse.

Finally, that “third way” finds nothing better to do than
to insult the people as being a mass of “deplorables”, as
Hillary Clinton put it, thus digging itself deeper into a
hole.

However “deplorable” he may be, the Trump phenomenon is a
current form of “the revolt of the masses” faced with the
failure of Western elites, supported by the “third way”
left.

As for those of us in Europe, the issue is not to support
either Trump or Clinton, since there is absolutely nothing
we can do about it. We need to wake up to our submission
to the United States and try to free ourselves, which
requires a long term effort at cultural, psychological and
political liberation. From that angle, an eventual
election of Trump could have a positive effect, at least
in the short run, by the shock it would provoke among our
America-idolizing media and political elites. But it’s up
to ourselves to recapture our own independence. That
never comes from outside.

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

With daily bulletins from consciousness control informing us
of the dangers of electing a textbook capitalist as president while daily news
of textbook capitalism’s increasing dangers to humanity go unreported, it is
long past time for an “alt-left” to balance the “alt-right” which seems to
represent the only organized critical voice in american politics.

An electorate is being forced to choose between a lesser
evil representative of the rich with excrement clogging his brains and a lesser
evil representative of the rich with pus clogging her veins, while a real
alternative for the 90% is not allowed to debate them for fear she would
attract millions of citizens desperate for change even if some are vague about
what it should represent. But almost as bad is the fact that one of
capitalism’s own, a multi-millionaire tv personality, is seen as a threat to
the established order far beyond that represented by Bernie Sanders, a supposed
socialist not remotely anti-capitalist and at best only a reviver of the FDR 20th
century new deal that saved capitalism the last time it neared global collapse.

What’s going on here? Alleged progressives, even ( ssshhh) many
leftists, are united with the american minority establishment in spreading fear
that if Trump were elected a cherished american warfare state of neo-lib-con
identity groups would be threatened with racism, sexism, poverty, war and other
things never before experienced in the mental Disneyland where some progressive-regressives
seem privileged to live.

How has a super wealthy individual member of a tiny minority,
an example of all that is wrong with America, become a threat to a far more
super wealthy tiny minority – 400+ billionaires - who are the greater example
of all that is wrong with America? And how is it that only the Democratic Party
establishment saw an alleged socialist as a threat, while both parties and the
establishment they are employed by are up in arms about a true-blue died in the
wool capitalist? Worse, supposed system critics and advocates of change –
mostly psychological - are assigned the job of helping create a supposed
anti-american monster whose arrogant, egoistic, individualist behavior all but
scream the national anthem, the pledge of allegiance, the constitution, the
lord’s prayer and hatikvah?

While polls are taken every fifteen minutes measuring
everything from citizen’s hatred of Trump, devotion to pets and support of war
against the world, we’ve yet to see a poll of the seven billion global
inhabitants that asked which nation they found the most powerful, dangerous,
obnoxious, egotistical and ignorant, to which the overwhelming response might
be a unified chant of USA! USA! USA! so powerful earth might suffer a massive
tsunami.

It would be difficult to conduct such a poll but easy to
come to that conclusion if the plastic curtain enshrouding american
consciousness were broken through enough to enable understanding of what we
truly represent to the world, are doing to much of it, and why that is a threat
to all of us and not just foreigners.

As paid critics and their amateur students excitedly inform
us that Trump is hopefully becoming unhinged at shocking revelations of how he
and other capitalists make money – who knew? - our alleged democratic
government is becoming truly unhinged with reckless behavior that could provoke
not only even bloodier war against an adversary we cannot dominate but worse, a
nuclear confrontation. Russia is not a powerless little country we can bomb at
will while pretending, as the Clintonistas, that “we kill because we care” and
are only stopping genocide. The overused g-word comes in handy when others kill
people. When we do it, it’s beneficial, democracy inspired loving murder. Kind
of like Syria’s Assad, constantly charged with blowing up hospitals with
“barrel bombs”, as opposed to the teeny-weeny itsy bitsy things we use to
reduce thousands of humans to bloody pulp while destroying their nations. In
the interest of free trade. In the free market. Where nothing is free.

The U.S. and its NATO puppets have been ringing Russia with
military bases since the end of the Soviet Union and are increasing border
threats to that nation, all the while calling it defensive postures against a
supposed world dominating lust on the part of Putin, depicted as a menace in
the way that comic book villains are depicted as threats to comic book heroes.
Bulletin for the American innocent and unconscious: U.S. military bases border
Russia, not the reverse.

Arrogance? The master race of self chosen people existed
long before Trump came into the picture but the hit job on him says he’s an
accomplice of Putin, and this is one of the cases in which the egomaniacal rich
guy who talks military toughness represents an almost peace politics by
comparison to the blood thirsty warheads of the other finance company. He
speaks of friendship with, rather than wars against, Russia and China.

Rest assured, whatever negative superiority either one of
the deadly duo may represent in some cases, neither offers anything but evil and
whichever of them might win, Corporate Capital, Israel and the 1% will maintain
power.

In the face of this dreadful choice offered voters, there is
still the contradictory fact that one of the lesser evils is seen as a threat
by the ruling evils. What? Has this brought the growth of a movement to vote
for Jill Stein and the Green Party, a real alterative to the political economics
of boom for some and doom for most? A vote for the greater good was never more
necessary and that’s what a truly alternative left would and should be working
for, but not yet. Why? Because believers in crackpot realism and the useful
idiots who demand its practice, under which we would still have slavery, remain
innocently swept up in fear or cynically in the employ of our rulers.

There is still some time for a slumbering left that truly
stands for social transformation and not rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic,
to become an alternative voice. A minority of Americans are already doing it,
working hard to put the alternative offered by Jill Stein and the Green Party
into the public debate. If and when the rest join them, this could be a truly
historic election, and not for negative reasons.